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Teaching Science Through Children’s Literature 

Target Audience: Pre-school and Primary Science Teachers 
Course Leader: Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski                       
Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm
Date: March 22 - 23, 2012
Venue: Professional Training Service, Q House Sathorn Building, 20th Floor, Bangkok, Thailand

                                            
Course Leader 
Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski, has been a science educator for the past 28 years, as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer, professional staff development instructor, curriculum specialist, keynote speaker, and university professor.

She has been a featured speaker, keynote speaker, and presenter at over 70 educational conferences. Diana is known for her effective and innovative teaching style, as well as being able to captivate, motivate, and inspire participants during all of her presentations.

About the Workshop
During this two-day workshop participants will learn how to bring science to life through popular pre-primary children’s literature. Endless examples of how children’s literature can be used in the classroom to present and reinforce scientific concepts will be shared in a format that is motivating and inquiry-based. Participants will learn how to select fictional and non-fictional books with scientific themes and then develop hands-on minds-on inquiry-based science lessons.

The hands-on explorations will cover concepts in the following science disciplines: Scientific Thinking/Inquiry, Earth & Space Science, Physical Sciences, & Life Science. In addition, math literature and math concepts will be integrated within many of the explorations undertaken during the workshop.

The book list includes fictional and non-fictional books from well-known authors such as: Dr. Seuss, Pfister, Zoehfeld, Gibbons, Frances O’Roark (Phineas L. MacGuire series), Carl Hiaasen, Jean Craighead George, Steve Tomecek, Anthony Fredericks, Roberta Edwards, Robert Byrd, Bonnie Worth and Tish Rabe (authors of new Cat in the Hat Learning Library Series, Ehlert, Himmelman, Lynne Mayer, Tan Hoban, Steve Jenkins, Kimberly Bradley, Alison Inches, Peg Kehlert, Mark Cassino, and others….

Workshop Objectives
  • Present an overview of the basic philosophy of integrating science, reading, and the language arts. 
  • Present an overview of how integrating science and reading helps to achieve early childhood science and literacy benchmarks. 
  • Present an overview of how children’s fictional literature can be used to teach science in the classroom. 
  • Provide participants with information that will prove helpful in the process of selecting children’s fictional and non-fictional books that can be used to teach scientific concepts. 
  • Present an overview of selected  fictional and non-fictional literature that can be used in elementary classrooms to teach science concepts and more (language, communication, math, social studies, and the arts). 
  • Allow participants to take an active role in conducting a wide-array of hands-on inquiry-based science explorations that will demonstrate specific science concepts and principles described in both fictional and non-fictional books. 
  • Provide participants with information and explorations that integrate math, science, reading, social studies, and the arts). 
  • Provide participants with information on creating extension explorations specifically related to integrating science and reading. 

* Each participant is asked to bring a pair of goggles, and one 2-litre or close to size empty plastic drinking water bottle, and scissor.

Links to photographs of explorations that will be undertaken during the workshop
http://www.slideshare.net/DrDianaWehrellGrabowski/teaching-science-through-childrens-literature-k5

Workshop Fee
Per Participant: Baht 16,300 Course Fee + Baht 1,600 Meeting Package
*PD Alliance Member: Baht 8,150 + Baht 1,600 Meeting Package

*(The PD Alliance offers a cost sharing scheme where the course fee for one participant can be shared between two participants registering together from the same school/organization. Two participants are required to register together to access the PD Alliance rate. PD Alliance information and member form can be accessed at The PD Alliance) 

  • We can help coordinate hotel reservation and airport pick up for participants from abroad.   Contact: sonthaya.ch@gmail.com


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